Sentences with phrase «potential next mayor»

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Our strategy was to project inevitability and invincibility to scare off potential challengers (if we hadn't, our next mayor very well may have been Anthony Weiner) and dissuade a host of powerful interests (unions, Democratic Party officials, Democratic donors) that there was no point in trying to beat us.

The numbers will no doubt come as a relief to City Hall and could, at least for the time being, quiet talk of a potential Democratic primary challenge or third - party challenge to the mayor when he runs for re-election next year.

Top Democrats have tried to recruit Miner to run for Congress next year against Rep. John Katko, R - Camillus, but the two - term mayor announced last month that she has ruled out a potential bid.

Cuomo's presidential strategy explains his seemingly contradictory actions, including his aggressive efforts to humiliate Mayor Bill de Blasio, a one - time ally and leading Democratic «progressive,» but a potential Cuomo rival in 2020 should he win re-election as mayor next year, according to the source.